Children's use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 527-565

  Arnold, Jennifer E ^a   Brown Schmidt, Sarah ^b   Trueswell, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34648840631     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960600845950     Document Type: Article

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